Pediatric Dietary Flavor Identification

Pediatrics is not the epitome of adults, has its own unique physiological and pathological characteristics, so its diagnosis, treatment, medication and care are all unique. Children have unique physiological characteristics “Yang often have more than, yin often insufficient”, the pathological characteristics of the “onset of easy, rapid change, easy to virtual easy to real, easy to cold easy to heat”, and nowadays children are more than thick clothing warm quilt, food paste sorghum thick flavor, so for the disease is easy to heat from the heat. Therefore, plain and sick dietary care is particularly critical, hot evidence or hot physique eating hot food, such as holding a fire, adding oil to the fire, so that the heat is blazing, the change of evidence series. Now only on the pediatric clinical work encountered in the prevalence of dietary misconceptions are introduced as follows. Common parents believe that there is nutrition, but do not understand the flavor of the food are prawns, sea cucumbers, lychee, cinnamon, cherries, children are often happy to eat, but all are hot and warm products, easy to cause heat blazing, overfeeding is not conducive to children’s health and recovery. Cherries – hot, for the hot products, usually have feverish diseases and wheezing and coughing should not be eaten. Especially children, overeating cherries are easy to fever, bronchitis, etc., see the symptoms of yin deficiency cough, such as dry cough with little phlegm or phlegm color yellow and thick, afternoon hot flashes, red cheekbones, night sweats, tongue red, pulse soft, should avoid eating cherries. According to the “Confucian family” recorded that “there is a rich family, there are two sons, daily food purple cherry (a good variety of cherry), until eaten until bored, half a month later, the eldest son had impotence, the younger son suffered from carbuncle, died one after another. Lychee – is a famous Lingnan fruit, flavorful and nutritious, containing a large amount of fructose, vitamins, proteins, etc., due to the maturity of the branch is weak and solid, can not be picked, can only be cut with a knife with the branch, so the name. Is a warm fruit, “Compendium of Materia Medica” that “the birth of fluids, the spirit, wisdom, healthy gas, beneficial to human color,” applicable to the cold syndrome. Proverbs also say “a litchi three fire”, so children with fever or yin deficiency fire, more cautious service. Longan – commonly known as cinnamon, is also a specialty of China’s southern subtropics, historically, there are southern “cinnamon” northern “ginseng” said, rich in nutrients. Warm and sweet, benefit the heart and spleen, replenish qi and blood, can be used for heart and spleen deficiency, insufficient qi and blood due to insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations, dizziness and other diseases. Can also be treated after illness or brain weakness, Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” said “food to lychee is expensive, and the benefit of the longan for good”. Overeating cinnamon, children often appear nosebleeds and other hot phenomena. Prawns – because of its low yield, higher price, more nutritious, parents especially like to give children eat prawns. Compendium of Materia Medica” in “shrimp, sweet and warm in nature, to acne rash, under the breast milk, spit wind phlegm, strong yang road”, good complementary Yang, so eating too much common pediatric fever, red face, bad breath, dry stools, such as hot and blazing phenomena, not to be eaten. Secondly, prawns for the Chinese medicine said hair, Western medicine for heterogeneous proteins, very easy to cause allergic symptoms, so eczema, asthma, allergies and other children eat with caution. Have seen a lactating mother to eat a plate of prawns every day, the newborn eczema all over the body, almost no normal skin, by adjusting the diet and the corresponding treatment, gradually eliminated. Mutton – “Materia Medica Prepara” in the “sweet and hot fire, make up for the deficiency of labor, benefit gas and blood, strong yang road, appetizers and healthy force, through the gas blisters”, the most easy to eat in winter, easy to fire, children are not cold evidence of less food. Sea cucumber – sweet, salty, warm, to the heart, kidney, kidney meridian, tonifying the kidney and benefit the essence, nourishing blood and moistening dryness, “five miscellaneous groups” in “its warmth and complementary, the foot of the enemy ginseng, so it is called sea cucumber”, children’s hot more than cold evidence, more than the actual evidence and less than the evidence of the virtual, therefore, such as the lack of deficiency should not be eaten to prevent birth of wet brewing! Therefore, if there is no deficiency, it is not advisable to eat more to prevent the birth of dampness and heat. Li Shizhen said, “more than one thing is good for the end of the disease”, so parents should keep in mind that food should not be more than one, and children should eat more grains and cereals, fresh vegetables and fruits, and pay attention to balanced nutrition, just as traditional Chinese medicine and pediatrics said, “If you want to have a safe child, you often need to be three points of hunger and cold”.